Jeevan Chaudhary
Character Analysis

Jeevan is the paparazzo turned paramedic who attempts to save Arthur’s life after his heart attack and who comforts Kirsten after Arthur dies. Jeevan receives a phone call informing him of the upcoming epidemic from his friend Hua, and he decides to buy supplies and try to survive with his brother Frank. Over the course of the novel, Jeevan changes from a paparazzo to an entertainment journalist, to an EMT trainee, and finally to the role of a doctor in the post-collapse world. He at first believes that work should be difficult and painful, almost like an everyday battle, but Jeevan eventually comes to see that he wants to do something he believes is valuable and helpful to other people.

Jeevan Chaudhary Quotes in Station Eleven

The Station Eleven quotes below are all either spoken by Jeevan Chaudhary or refer to Jeevan Chaudhary. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Vintage edition of Station Eleven published in 2015.

Chapter 30
Quotes

On silent afternoons in his brother's apartment, Jeevan found himself thinking about how human the city is, how human everything is. We bemoaned the impersonality of the modern world, but that was a lie, it seemed to him; it had never been impersonal at all. There had always been a massive delicate infrastructure of people, all of them working unnoticed around us, and when people stop going to work, the entire operation grinds to a halt.

“Well, we'll just stay here till the lights come back on or the Red Cross shows up or whatever." … “What makes you think the lights will come back on?" Frank asked without looking up. Jeevan started to reply, but words failed him.

Jeevan Chaudhary Character Timeline in Station Eleven

The timeline below shows where the character Jeevan Chaudhary appears in Station Eleven. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.

Chapter 1

...his line and clutches his chest; he is having a heart attack. In the audience, Jeevan, a man who is training to be a paramedic, notices what is happening and rushes...
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A cardiologist from the audience takes over for Jeevan while they wait for an ambulance to arrive. When the medics attempt (and fail) to...
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After finding Tanya, Jeevan looks for his own girlfriend Laura in the lobby. He is unable to locate her,...
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Chapter 3

Jeevan walks in the park reflecting on his career, his brother Frank, and his strange interaction...
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Jeevan walks a little more, before receiving another phone call from Hua. This time the doctor...
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Jeevan decides to go to his brother Frank’s apartment, since getting out of the city wth...
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Chapter 15

...a cigarette. The man agrees not to take her photo and says his name is Jeevan. He gives her a cigarette and asks why Elizabeth Colton’s car is still in the...
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Chapter 27

Seven years before the collapse, Jeevan Chaudhary books an interview with Arthur Leander. Jeevan worked previously as a paparazzo, but has...
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Chapter 28

On his brother Frank’s sofa in Toronto after the Flu, Jeevan tries to remember what happened after Arthur told him about leaving Elizabeth Colton. Jeevan entertains...
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Chapter 29

Jeevan remembers keeping his word and waiting a full twenty-four hours before telling anyone about Arthur’s...
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Chapter 30

Frank yells at Jeevan to stop singing “It’s the end of the world as we know it.” The two...
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Jeevan uses Frank’s telescope to note that the gridlock of cars on the highway is absolute,...
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...go on, Frank puts his energy into his project to distract himself from the situation. Jeevan often contemplates how human the city is, and how so many facets of modernity rely...
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...reflects that living cooped up like this is similar to the tree house he and Jeevan had as children. Jeevan says that they can wait out the situation for a while....
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Chapter 32

On Day Forty-Seven, Jeevan sees smoke rising in the distance. Sometimes he hears gunshots at night. The stench of...
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They hadn’t heard anyone in the apartment building for over a week, so Jeevan decides to risk venturing out of the apartment. Up on the roof, he feels exposed...
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...says that he thinks there is only survival in whatever is left of the world. Jeevan says he can’t just leave Frank, but Frank tells his brother, “I’ll leave first,” and...
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Chapter 33

...the second-to-last edition of the New York Times. François has it, but the CPR man (Jeevan) is unnamed in the publication. Kirsten continues the story of that evening, saying that the...
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Chapter 34

Back in Year One in Toronto, on Day Fifty-Eight, Frank reads Jeevan something he has been working on over the past months. Frank has been ghostwriting a...
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Chapter 36

Now outside, Jeevan decides to follow the lake and head south. It’s implied that Frank killed himself; Jeevan...
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Jeevan finds it difficult not to think of Frank, both of the image of him on...
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At first Jeevan is terrified of being robbed or abused in a lawless world, but he soon realizes...
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On his journey Jeevan remembers a conversation with Frank over two months ago, about how in disaster movies there...
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Chapter 46

That same night in the summer of Year Fifteen, Jeevan is drinking wine by a river in what was once a part of the state...
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On the riverbank, Jeevan, Daria, and Michael discuss McKinley’s school and whether or not they should tell children how...
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During this conversation, Jeevan is not paying attention. Instead, he tries to relax and forget the stress of the...
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Jeevan hasn’t seen a gunshot wound in a while, since most ammunition is gone and is...
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After he has cleaned up, Jeevan gets to work sterilizing the needle he used. He smokes his pipe, thinking about the...
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Chapter 52

...smile in his infirmary bed (in baggage claim). A thousand miles south of the airport, Jeevan is breaking bread with his son Frank and his wife Daria. Back in the north,...
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